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Truman Sweep; THE ELECTION RETURNS: A MATHEMATICAL MAP

The white-porticoed colonial mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., has housed thirty-one tenants since John Adams moved in during October, 1800. The average tenancy has lasted four years and six months. Last week the thirty-first tenant -- the thirty-second President of the United States -- won a renewal of his lease in circumstances extraordinary in American history.

November 07, 1948

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